Agggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Righty-ho, well I am now here. Already have people nagging me for pictures, though I have had not time to take any yet! After the clusterf$*k that is Iberia I finally arrived in Peru, after a nice stay in Madrid overnight and a detour to Caracas in Venezuela. Unfotunatly, my luggage didn´t. I´ve been living off other people clothes sine Thursday, now I am totally out of knickers ans still no bag., hence the post title.

Oh well, apart from that I am having a wicked time, living with Jesus and Rupe, their son Carlos and my host brother Josh. Most of the people here are Americanos, so I´m having great fun teaching them words like "snog" and "bugger" - hehe! Everyone is great, and so enthusiatic, and I don´t feel like a total mong for not speaking much Spanish beacause few people do. Already I have helped to build a kitchen, cutting doen trees and gathering rocks, getting pretty muddy and almost passing out in the process! My body is rebelling against the altitude and the six hour time difference, but I´m still having a wicked time.

Tomorrow I begin my Spanish lessons and my project, which unfortuantely isn´t working in a helth clinic. Instead I shall be working on a eco-touism project, helping to protect the forests and glaciers and helping create an income for the local people in a variety of ways, from teaching the children English, business and computer skills to building accomodation for the tourists, to making promotional videos for the little tour company they have set up. If you could see how amazing this place is and how fantastic all the people are you would understand more how important the work that ProPeru does here is. But more of that soon....

Thanks once again to everyone who in some way helped me to get here (including the guys from Eastbourne College - hope Argentina is fun!), I know I wouldn´t be having this amazing experince without all of you, so cheers dudes!

As soon as I sort myself out I´ll start trying to stick some pictures up on the site, so you can get more of an idea of what my ramblings are all about. Off now for some mate de coca - coca leaf tea, great for altitude sickness!

PS - Sorry for any spelling mistakes - Spanish language technology es muy complicado para mi!